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Vol. 31, No. 5 June/July 2005
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Inside ASIS&T DASER-2 to Examine STM Publishing The American Society for Information Science and
Technology (ASIS&T), ASIS&T Special Interest
Group/Scientific and Technical Information Systems (SIG/STI) and the
Potomac Valley Chapter of ASIS&T are pleased to announce
DASER-2, the second Digital Archives for Science &
Engineering Resources Summit, December 2-4, 2005, at the Postponed
from a late April date, DASER-2 will examine
new issues and challenges related to digital archives and
science-technology-medicine (STM) publishing. This conference will
explore issues surrounding digital libraries, institutional
repositories and open access publishing: ·
impact of OA on the future of STM libraries ·
institutional repository models: what works and what doesn't ·
publisher-library collaboration strategies, now and in the
near future ·
institutional repository object issues – theses, datasets,
learning objects, etc. ·
user needs and patterns related to digital libraries Science
and technology libraries are undergoing
intense change. Patrons are demanding more e-content
with better tools. Print collections must still be maintained.
Digital archiving and preservation is still in its infancy. The
serials pricing crisis is exacerbated by the need to purchase many
materials in dual formats. And now we
have institutional repositories and open access to manage.
It is within this chaotic environment that the DASER (pronounced
like laser but with a "d") summits operate – a
venue where the movers and
shakers in our profession get together to assess and
evaluate, collaborate and communicate. For more information about DASER-2, please visit www.daser.org
or www.asist.org. SIG/III Announces
6th International Paper Contest ASIS&T
Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III)
invites submissions for its sixth
International Paper Competition on digital libraries and information
science and technology advances in developing countries. The theme
for this year’s competition is Bringing Research and Practice
Together – The Developing World Perspective. Six
winning papers will be selected. Each winner will receive a two-year
individual membership in ASIS&T. In
addition, the
first place winner will receive financial support toward travel,
conference registration and accommodations while attending the
ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, October
28-November 2, 2005. Submitted
papers may address issues at either the country or regional level.
Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific
aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following: ·
Social, ethical, political, legal and economic and
cultural issues ·
Information organization, management, access and
retrieval ·
Information seeking and use ·
Information technology, social equity and development A
panel of judges including Liwen Vaughan, chair; Yunfei Du;
Yin Zhang; Duncan Omole; Merlyna Lim; Julian
Warner; and Nathalie Leroy will select winners. Eligible Authors
Principal
authors of submitted papers must be citizens of and residents in
developing countries. Previous winners of the SIG/III International
Paper Contest are not eligible. Papers should be original,
unpublished and in English. SIG/III encourages submissions from
librarians, information and network specialists and educators
involved in the creation, representation, maintenance, exchange,
discovery, delivery and use of digital information. Deadline
Authors
are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by June
30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at domole@worldbank.org . More
information about the SIG/III International Paper Contest is
available at www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm News about ASIS&T Chapters The Los Angeles Chapter of American Society for Information
Science and Technology (LACASIS) scheduled The Mind's
Eye: Theory and Practice of Digital Imaging in Cultural Heritage
Institutions as its April meeting, held at the Berkeley Art
Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Among the featured presenters on
cultural imaging projects was Layna White, head of
collections information and access at San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art. For May, LACASIS scheduled a half-day program on Open
Source from a Decision-Maker's Perspective. Several
organizations were to give insights into how they have dealt with
open source applications. Among the topics were open source
software; DSPACE as a tool for disseminating training videos; the
Archivists' Toolkit; and legal aspects of using open source
software. For
its March meeting, the Wisconsin Chapter of ASIS&T
planned a presentation entitled The
Pinyin Conversion Project and the Challenge of Cleaning Up Afterward, featuring Philip Melzer, vice-president/president-elect of the Council
of East Asian Libraries, and team leader of the Korean/Chinese
cataloging team at the Library of Congress. The session focused on a
massive undertaking by American libraries to convert to the pinyin
system of romanizing the Chinese language. The presentation
described the planning of the project, the mechanics of the
conversion, some of the complexities involved and the challenge of
finding and converting romanized Chinese text on non-Chinese and
pre-MARC cataloging records.
In early May, the New
England Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIST) took a shot at making sense of
many of the new and maturing technologies now in the marketplace. Syndicate,
Aggregate, Communicate: New
Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular
Folk featured three early adopter information specialists who
have explored and experimented with such tools as blogs, wikis, RSS,
instant messenging (IM), chat, browser add-ons, bookmarklets and
folksonomies. They discussed how these tools could be used for
personal information management; internal staff or project
communication; website content development; and making content
findable on the Internet.
Then in late May, NEASIST scheduled its annual spring
awards dinner recognizing colleagues for their hard work and
contributions to the Society. Three chapter awards were to be
announced: two Student Paper Awards (travel grants to attend the
2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina); the
Simmons Student Member-of-the-Year award; and the NEASIST Chapter
Member-of-the-Year award. The Central Ohio Chapter of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (CO-ASIST) held its
annual meeting in early May with a presentation by Joe Branin,
director of libraries for Ohio State University, speaking on New
Spaces and Places in the Ohio State University Libraries. He
described how research libraries are responding to changes in the
information technology, higher education and public funding
environments. The Indiana Chapter of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (I-ASIS&T) presented Understanding,
Motivating and Successfully Working with the Millennial Generation
in May. Speakers and participants in the session discussed
generational differences between the millennial generation –
beginning with people born in 1980 – now hitting the workplace and
workers of earlier generations. The Southern Ohio Chapter of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology (SOASIST) will
take an in-depth look at Google at its June meeting. Glen Horton,
technology coordinator for the Greater Cincinnati Library
Consortium, will discuss some additional ways to get better results
from your searches. In addition, he will demonstrate some of the
features and tricks that make Google more than just a search engine.
News from ASIS&T SIGs Special Interest Group/Library Technologies
(SIG/LT) published its first newsletter recently thanks to
the group's chair, Cindy Campbell. The SIG is eager to share
information about its mission and its plans for the ASIS&T 2005
Annual Meeting with all ASIS&T members. The group is also
looking for dynamic members who can help promote SIG/LT and help it
develop projects in the field of library technologies. Check it all
out at http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/siglan-l/attachments/20050215/3df9bf6f/Jan2005.pdf. Special Interest Group/Scientific and Technical Information
Systems (SIG/STI) is continuing its annual grant to a library and
information science student with an interest or background in
chemistry or chemical engineering. The $1000 grant, made available
by a gift from Chemical Abstracts Service, is to defray the cost of
attending the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The application form
is available at www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/awards/award-cas2005-app.html
(or www.asis.org/SIG/SIGSTI/awards/cas2005.doc). Application
deadline is July 20, 2005. News about ASIS&T Members Marcia J. Bates, professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA,
and her colleague Mary Niles Maack, have accepted appointments as
editors of the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science (ELIS), published by Marcel Dekker. They
will take over from current editor Miriam Drake. With the
help of an expanded editorial board, the new editors plan a thorough
review of the overall plan for the encyclopedia, re-conceptualizing
the compendium for the greatly expanded domains of the information
professions and institutions in the Internet age. Charles W. Bailey, Jr., assistant dean for Digital Library
Planning and Development at the University of Houston Libraries, has
published Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly
Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals. This book,
which is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial
License, has been published in print form by the Association of
Research Libraries (ARL). ARL
and the author have also made the book freely available as a PDF
file (http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.htm).
Bailey is the author of a number of digital publications, and
he was the founding editor-in-chief of The Public-Access Computer
Systems Review. Suzie Allard and Kendra Albright, both assistant professors in the School of
Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, received major
university awards at the College of Communication and Information
Convocation program. Allard was honored with the Outstanding Faculty
Teaching Award and Albright received the Innovative Technology
Teaching Award. The awards honor faculty in the four schools of the
College of Communication and Information. News
from an ASIS&T Institutional Member IU Informatics’ Team Takes First Place in
International Student Design Competition A
student team from the School of Informatics at Indiana
University won first place in the International Student Design
Competition, sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI).
The
second annual competition is a three-phase, six-month process, which
ultimately brings a select few teams to the CHI conference. IU’s
winning team was one of four IU teams – all human-computer
interaction graduate students – selected to attend the second
round of competition in Portland, Oregon, after beating out national
and international teams in the first round. Student
teams from all over the globe were invited to submit their written
solutions to this year’s research challenge: create a design for
artificial companionship to support the social well-being of seniors
above the age of 65. This
year’s winning team proposed Project mPath, a volunteer network to
be implemented within assisted-living facilities. As part of the
project, volunteers would assess social relationships and emotional
reactions, inputting information into the system, which would
examine data over time to isolate anomalies, highlight trends and
anticipate future responses. ASIS&T Presents Audit The full report of the ASIS&T auditors on the 2004 financial statements is presented on this and the following pages. |
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